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The art of the bird, the history of ornithological art through forty artists, Roger J. Lederer

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The art of the bird, the history of ornithological art through forty artists, Roger J. Lederer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The art of the bird

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1097462963

Responsibility statement

Roger J. Lederer

Sub title

the history of ornithological art through forty artists

Summary

"The human history of depicting birds dates to as many as 40,000 years ago, when Paleolithic artists took to cave walls to capture winged and other beasts. But the art form has reached its peak in the last four hundred years. In The Art of the Bird, devout birder and ornithologist Roger J. Lederer celebrates this heyday of avian illustration in forty artists' profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary artists like Elizabeth Butterworth, famed for her portraits of macaws. Stretching its wings across time, taxa, geography, and artistic style--from the celebrated realism of American conservation icon John James Audubon, to Elizabeth Gould's nineteenth-century renderings of museum specimens from the Himalayas, to Swedish artist and ornithologist Lars Jonsson's ethereal watercolors--this book is feathered with art and artists as diverse and beautiful as their subjects. A soaring exploration of our fascination with the avian form, The Art of the Bird is a testament to the ways in which the intense observation inherent in both art and science reveals the mysteries of the natural world." --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- 1. Flemish Baroque artists 1580-1700. Frans Snyders 1579-1657 ; Carel Pietersz Fabritius 1622-54 ; Melchior d'Hondecoeter 1636-95 -- 2. Early English artists 1626-1716. Francis Barlow 1626-1704 ; Jakob Bogdani 1658-1724 ; Marmaduke Cradock 1660-1716 -- 3. Natural history 1680-1806. Mark Catesby 1682/3-1749 ; George Edwards 1694-1773 ; Aert Schouman 1710-92 -- 4. Before ecology. Thomas Bewick 1753-1828 ; Lady Elizabeth Symonds Gwillim 1763-1807 ; Alexander Wilson 1766-1813 -- 5. Early scientific illustration. John James Audubon 1785-1851 ; Prideaux John Selby 1788-1867 ; Elizabeth Gould 1804-41 -- 6. In the age of Darwin. Edward Lear 1812-88 ; Joseph Wolf 1820-99 ; William Matthew Hart 1830-1908 -- 7. Art and science overlap. John Gerrard Keulemans 1842-1912 ; Robert Ridgway 1850-1929 ; Archibald Thorburn 1860-1935 ; Bruno Liljefors 1860-1939 ; Allan Cyril Brooks 1869-1946 ; Louis Agassiz Fuertes 1874-1927 -- 8. Broader appeal. Claude Gibney Finch-Davies 1875-1920 ; Lilian Marguerite Medland 1880-1955 ; Neville William Cayley 1886-1950 ; Jessie Arms Botke 1883-1971 ; Eric Ennion 1900-81 ; Roger Tory Peterson 1908-96 -- 9. Bird art supports birds. Janet Turner 1914-88 ; Arthur B. Singer 1917-90 ; Keith Shackleton 1923-2015 ; William Thomas Cooper 1934-2015 ; James Fenwick Lansdowne 1937-2008 -- 10. Ornithological art expands. Raymond Harris-Ching 1939- ; Hilary Burn 1946- ; Elizabeth Butterworth 1949- ; Lars Jonsson 1952- ; David Allen Sibley 1961-

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History of ornithological art through forty artists

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